Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York City and Washington, DC. The DHS nickname of “Department of Homeland Stupidity” has been cited in print since at least June 2003; a trademark application for “Homeland Stupidity” was filed on November 25, 2002.

Wikipedia: United States Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the United States of America and U.S. territories (including protectorates) from and responding to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters. The Department of Homeland Security, and not the United States Department of the Interior, is equivalent to the Interior ministries of other countries. In fiscal year 2011, DHS was allocated a budget of $98.8 billion and spent, net, $66.4 billion.

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TSA still cutting locks?
sowalsky
Jun 1, 03, 3:24 pm
It’s legal. The restriction is based airline-by-airline, not by the dept of homeland stupidity.

the Practical Progressive
Friday, February 18, 2005
Department of Homeland Stupidity
“Al Qaida has considered using the southwestern border to infiltrate the United States,” according to Admiral James Loy, Deputy Director of the Homeland Security Department.

OC Weekly (Orange County, CA)Department of Homeland Stupidity
Master of Disasters Mike Carona breached secret anti-terrorism plans
By R. SCOTT MOXLEY Thursday, May 11 2006
Above Irvine Lake, somewhere near the intersection of the 241 and 261 toll roads, two miles after an unmarked entrance at the base of Loma Ridge, over a bridge, up a narrow winding road with two blind turns, and beyond two electronic gates and “no public access” signs, surveillance cameras and armed guards, is Orange County’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

FireDogLake—La FigaDepartment of Homeland Stupidity: Fair Use, Parody and Satire vs the Government
Lisa Derrick Wednesday October 30, 2013 8:30 am
The Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency are using their muscle and copyright law to threaten a novelty store dealer with a lawsuit if he doesn’t stop selling items satirizing the snoopy bureaucracies.

Several offending to the gubmit (but I-am-12 funny to everyone else) hats, tee shirts and coffee mugs sport the words

Department of Homeland Stupidity

and the DHS logo, altered to give the eagle a dunce cap holding a bottle and a pot leaf, ...

Infowars.comFree Speech T-shirt Maker Threatened By NSA, DHS Fights Back With Lawsuit
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Oct 30, 2013
Back in August Infowars and Ben Swann broke the story of the NSA threatening online t-shirt makers because users of their sites were creating parody shirts denouncing the agency and selling them on the internet. Now one t-shirt designer, who was specifically targeted is suing both the NSA and The Department of Homeland Security, for violating his First Amendment rights.
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His lawsuit further states:

Defendants violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution by threatening to enforce 50 U.S.C. § 3613 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 506, 701, and 1017 to forbid McCall from displaying his NSA Listens Parody, his NSA Spying Parody, and his DHS Stupidity Parody, from placing the Parodies on products to identify the targets of his criticism, or from selling mugs, T-shirts or other items bearing those designs to customers who want to display the items to express their own criticisms of NSA and DHS.